Amber Central Available for Windows Phone 7

Amber Central (a free WP7 app) aims to get Amber Alerts on your phone to help search and safely recover missing children. It’s always welcoming to see an app that is designed solely to help others but on top of that, the app is very well built. Take a look at the features:

A real-time feed of active AMBER Alerts from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) including some information about the victim, when and where they were reported missing, and the type of alert.

A listing of missing children from NCMEC organized by the states from where they are missing.

A listing of missing children from NCMEC reported missing in proximity to your current location.

If a user has information about a case or has seen one of the missing children, they can press a button and automatically call NCMEC’s toll-free 24-hour hotline 1-800-THE-LOST (800-843-5678), or contact the local authority in charge of the missing child case. Although this application includes a listing of all active AMBER Alerts, it does not currently actively notify the user when a new AMBER Alert is issued (Live Tile feature coming soon). For active notification, NCMEC encourages all wireless subscribers to register to receive Wireless AMBER Alerts™. Through that initiative, they can sign up at www.wirelessamberalerts.org to receive text message notices about AMBER Alerts that have been issued in their area. Please consider downloading the Amber Central Application and signing up for Wireless AMBER Alerts. You might be able to help an abducted or missing child come home safely. For other ways that you can get involved, please visit NCMEC’s website here

Here’s a video of it in action:

As mentioned, this is a free app available now in Marketplace from this link:

Very nice work Dele Olowoyo. Great to see someone use their talents and the platform this way.